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Originally Posted by Locke

Your sarcasm is especially hilarious as you've backed up nothing in your post, firstly proving my point and secondly you come across as a total ass while doing it. Congratulations.

He comes across as a total ass?

He pointed out the flaw in your post. We know plenty about all of the characters. Kouta is a hero, but he's not the most intelligent person and believes what he's told too often, and doesn't consider consequences. Hell, he's accepted the Kiwami lock despite the warnings. Kaito is obsessed with strength and what it means, and has his own deffinition about what strength really is, for better or worse. Micchy is ultimately selfish, but his selfishness is not one-dimensional. His scheming was born from him just wanting to keep things the way they were. He's gone from cunning, to self-absorbed, and it's evolving into a full-on villain with nothing to lose and everything to gain. Sid was slimy, but he was also outright villainous. He, much like Micchy, was selfish in his goals, but unlike Micchy lacked any kind of subtlety, which led to his early demise. And so on, and so on. Maybe because historically Kamen Rider has relentlessly drilled every aspect of the show into the viewer's heads due to it's fixed length and often basic stories, but just becasue Gaim doesn't have every character reiterate their arc each episode to pad out the show as most do to make up for the lack of substance, doesn't make it underdevloped. You can overdo just as much as you can underdo.

Just because you whittle them down to one-word descriptors, doesn't make the characters that simple. I could say anything's as simple as I want, doesn't make it true. And biting back at people who call you out for it really paints you in an unfavourable light. If you're going to get snarky, make damn sure you're actually making sense or else people will call you out on being pretentious.

The only one I agree with you on is Gridon, but that really comes across as superficial love on the producton team's part. They like what the character represents, not especially what he is. People find likablity in stuff even if we haven't lived each day of it's life. There is no rule that says every single character needs to be as equally developed for people to like them. It's not hard-wired into the human brain that liking something means it can't be for superficial reasons.